薛

薛 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹口十 (THRJ), four-corner 4474₁, composition ⿱艹⿰𠂤辛)

• 𡤏, 𡾲, 𭣍, 𨇨, 𪈙, 𮮂, 𪈟, 㔑, 𠣅, 𫊎, 㜸, 孽, 蘖, 𭶧, 𪺶, 糵, 𧕏, 躠, 𪎃

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1061, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32123
• Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3303, character 8
• Unihan data for U+859B

In oracle bone script, Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋed) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 䇂 (“sickle”) + phonetic 月 (OC *ŋod, “moon”). The original meaning was likely "to work (with a sickle) under the moonlight".

In bronze inscriptions the character corrupted into the modern form Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋed): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 辥 (OC *sŋed).

薛

1. (obsolete) kind of marsh grass
2. name of a feudal state
3. a surname

   薛居正  ―  Xuē Jūzhèng  ―  Xue Juzheng (lead author of the Old History of the Five Dynasties)

• “薛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “薛”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 214.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: かわらよもぎ (kawarayomogi)、はますげ (hamasuge)

薛 • (seol) (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune–Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

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薛: Hán Việt readings: tiết^[1], tuyết^[2]
薛: Nôm readings: tiết^[1]

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